Movie review thread...
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Scene of the year. Gage white-knights for Aisha and explains white privilege to the boys.
I downloaded and watched it last night, inspirational and genuinely hilarious satire, they time-travel to the future (today) and they’re not holding back.
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Training Day
Always worth a re watch every few years……Denzil and Ethan are just outstanding and there’s a great support cast too.
There’s some things I find weird and can’t get my head around though……
Who was Roger, an ex cop or a drug dealer ? Or both ? Why did they visit him beforehand ?
How did they know that hustling Snoops character would lead them to a drug dealer with a lazy 40 grand in his room to bribe the three corrupt cops?
What happened after the Latino guys ( and Cliff Curtis ) let Hoyt go ? Was it “sorry for trying to execute you, you’re free to go”……I find it hard to believe there were no repercussions there.
Bloody good flick though.
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Elvis movie was significantly better than I expected it to be. Didn’t think the guy looked enough like him, but his voice and mannerisms were uncanny. Probably the best representation of him yet.
Structure of the movie puts the music front and centre and doesn’t shy away from how naive Presley was and how evil The Colonel was. End was pretty emotional.
Excellent movie. 5 Elvis the Pelvis out of 5.
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@Kirwan I agree, (I’m not as high on the rating though) although I thought he looked enough like him to accurately portray him yet not too much like an impersonator.
It’s a very Baz film so I guess peoples enjoyment will depend on how they like his style.
I listen to Hanks on a podcast and he noted it was rewritten when he had Covid after discussions with Priscilla and other people who knew the colonel. Apparently the version we see is much softer on him than the original script.
The end was pretty dust in the eye despite the fact we all know how it ends.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Training Day
Always worth a re watch every few years……Denzil and Ethan are just outstanding and there’s a great support cast too.
There’s some things I find weird and can’t get my head around though……
Who was Roger, an ex cop or a drug dealer ? Or both ? Why did they visit him beforehand ?
How did they know that hustling Snoops character would lead them to a drug dealer with a lazy 40 grand in his room to bribe the three corrupt cops?
What happened after the Latino guys ( and Cliff Curtis ) let Hoyt go ? Was it “sorry for trying to execute you, you’re free to go”……I find it hard to believe there were no repercussions there.
Bloody good flick though.
Hated that movie. Never re-watched.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kirwan I agree, (I’m not as high on the rating though) although I thought he looked enough like him to accurately portray him yet not too much like an impersonator.
It’s a very Baz film so I guess peoples enjoyment will depend on how they like his style.
I listen to Hanks on a podcast and he noted it was rewritten when he had Covid after discussions with Priscilla and other people who knew the colonel. Apparently the version we see is much softer on him than the original script.
The end was pretty dust in the eye despite the fact we all know how it ends.
Gee, I’d hate to see the harsher version. It was not a sympathetic portrayal at all.
Agree about the Baz style, but it works so well with the music leading the story.
The ending was brutal.
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@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kirwan I agree, (I’m not as high on the rating though) although I thought he looked enough like him to accurately portray him yet not too much like an impersonator.
It’s a very Baz film so I guess peoples enjoyment will depend on how they like his style.
I listen to Hanks on a podcast and he noted it was rewritten when he had Covid after discussions with Priscilla and other people who knew the colonel. Apparently the version we see is much softer on him than the original script.
The end was pretty dust in the eye despite the fact we all know how it ends.
Gee, I’d hate to see the harsher version. It was not a sympathetic portrayal at all.
Agree about the Baz style, but it works so well with the music leading the story.
The ending was brutal.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Training Day
Always worth a re watch every few years……Denzil and Ethan are just outstanding and there’s a great support cast too.
There’s some things I find weird and can’t get my head around though……
Who was Roger, an ex cop or a drug dealer ? Or both ? Why did they visit him beforehand ?
How did they know that hustling Snoops character would lead them to a drug dealer with a lazy 40 grand in his room to bribe the three corrupt cops?
What happened after the Latino guys ( and Cliff Curtis ) let Hoyt go ? Was it “sorry for trying to execute you, you’re free to go”……I find it hard to believe there were no repercussions there.
Bloody good flick though.
Hated that movie. Never re-watched.
Nope great movie, try again
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Looks a hoot
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Clean
We all know the tried and true story of "there's this guy, right - just trying to live a modest life, despite his violent past. Until something happens, and he's dragged back into being a hard-ass mo-fo, (probably to protect some young girl he's formed an attachment to)".
What we never knew was that we'd all missed out on the obvious version of that "modest life" - a garbage man. Until now.
Adrien Brody has now fixed that oversight, thank god.And who best to provide the soundtrack to such a fundamental story? Adrien Brody.
That's right: Original Music/Score: Adrien Brody. Every second song in the credits is accredited to "Brody Beats".I'm not sure much more needs to be said. But...
- Tit-watch: zero
- Repeated flashbacks bulking up runtime: maybe 33% of runtime? (Despite which... I'm still not sure what actually happened.)
- Unnecessary close-ups of Adrien Brody's torso - 1 overly long scene
- Methods in which Adrien Brody is shown to be a swell guy:
- drives a "souped-up" car;
- feeds a stray dog;
- finds "scrap" during his garbage collection, uses that to restore shit, sells that shit to a pawn shop, uses proceeds to buy dodgy "seconds" paint, uses this lead-based paint to paint abandoned houses;
- doesn't use the hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in "past-life-suitcase" to do anything, until the obvious murderous rampage;
creeps onbefriends a pre-teen girl;- doesn't accept prescription for painkillers when legitimately offered.
1 "is that a home-made silencer for a shotgun which you've just sawn the stock off, and then are only going to use AFTER you've driven a fucking garbage truck into a house?" ...
... out of 5 "how did you ever even figure out who the Big Bad was, when there's been nothing to attach him to this?" -
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Clean
We all know the tried and true story of "there's this guy, right - just trying to live a modest life, despite his violent past. Until something happens, and he's dragged back into being a hard-ass mo-fo, (probably to protect some young girl he's formed an attachment to)".
What we never knew was that we'd all missed out on the obvious version of that "modest life" - a garbage man. Until now.
Adrien Brody has now fixed that oversight, thank god.And who best to provide the soundtrack to such a fundamental story? Adrien Brody.
That's right: Original Music/Score: Adrien Brody. Every second song in the credits is accredited to "Brody Beats".I'm not sure much more needs to be said. But...
- Tit-watch: zero
- Repeated flashbacks bulking up runtime: maybe 33% of runtime? (Despite which... I'm still not sure what actually happened.)
- Unnecessary close-ups of Adrien Brody's torso - 1 overly long scene
- Methods in which Adrien Brody is shown to be a swell guy:
- drives a "souped-up" car;
- feeds a stray dog;
- finds "scrap" during his garbage collection, uses that to restore shit, sells that shit to a pawn shop, uses proceeds to buy dodgy "seconds" paint, uses this lead-based paint to paint abandoned houses;
- doesn't use the hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in "past-life-suitcase" to do anything, until the obvious murderous rampage;
creeps onbefriends a pre-teen girl;- doesn't accept prescription for painkillers when legitimately offered.
1 "is that a home-made silencer for a shotgun which you've just sawn the stock off, and then are only going to use AFTER you've driven a fucking garbage truck into a house?" ...
... out of 5 "how did you ever even figure out who the Big Bad was, when there's been nothing to attach him to this?"Good to see Brody step up now that Liam Neeson, Bruce Willis, Nicholas Cage and John Travolta are getting a bit long in the tooth.
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Nowhere Special. James Norton plays a single Dad of a little boy in Belfast. He (the Dad) is dying and trying to find a family for his son to live with before he goes. Nothing much happens but the quality of the acting and the direction while the nothing is happening is brilliant. Very, very dusty in the lounge by the end, hadn’t realised how poorly we’ve been vacuuming
5 picture books out of 5 heavily tattooed arms.
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We've all at sometime or another gone down the "take one for the team" road but you're going above and beyond. You need to take a step back and consider what effect your actions may be having on you and your wider family.
Many of us are beginning to worry for your mental health if you keep this up
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Romper Stomper
I wouldn’t have seen this film since I was in college.
A bit dated but some good intense acting from a very young and thin Russell Crowe as leader of a gang of skinheads who get their come uppance from a gang of Asians. Some decent performance and surprisingly catchy ( and extremely offensive ) songs.
3 skinhead skinheads ! out of 5 Gook bashings.
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The Burning Sea - a Norwegian disaster movie about one of the Oil Platforms in the North Sea that collapses and the impending disaster this is the prelude to.
Obviously there is a message in the film, but is more just a disaster movie, with a message.
3 collapsing rigs out of 5 man there are alot of rigs out there!
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